I don't like them at all. The diffusers they use are not like the egg crate style that Diamond, Littman, Brunswick, and more traditional pool lights use. So when you look up, or even from the side, they hurt my eyes.

Lots of players seem to like them though.

b3p said:

Might I ask what tool(s) you use to keep the tip scuffed? I shape with a dime willard's and scuff with forceful small scraping motions using a tap tool

I also mostly play with a green recoil. I've been trying to find similarly designed polymer playing tips (not breaking/jump) from other manufacturers with no luck. I didnt like the rhino time crystal tip (tried one of the harder variants)

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Believe it or not the best tool I've found for the Bulletproof Recoil hard tip is the Sandman shaper, if you just let the weight of the tool, which isn't much by the way, run over the tip starting from the edge of the tip to the center of the tip while spinning the tip for 30 to 45 seconds that tip will hold chalk like a beast, I posted some pics in another thread " Bulletproof Recoil tip 7 months later" , I was concerned the tool might take off too much but you can't even measure it, my tip looks and more importantly play like the day it was installed, I expect this tip to last at least a year and half if not longer, the thing I care the most about is the way it plays, just works for me.

336Robin said:

Ok that must have been after the day of the old school 9-ball rules.
or I'm guessing that.

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Yeah also most players weren't very good at kicking. Guy snookers you even with a workable shot and gets ball in hand. It didn't take long though everybody was kicking better and kicked balls safe they hit the correct side of the ball and so on with just the right speed. Created a whole new aspect to the game.

maha said:

i dont understand why anyone would buy an unknown cheaper cue off the internet without hitting it first. you can do that in many poolrooms that sell cues.
most are for sale because they are junk and the owner doesnt know much about it. good cues are well know even by people that inherit them.

and if its some rare find it will be gone before you get to bid on it.

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Most buyers of a cue like this are bidding bc they “think” they may be making a killing on a valuable cue - if someone actually knows that the cue is a possible “steal” they would not bid until the very end in an auction setting.

middleofnowhere said:

One foul ball in hand anywhere on the table

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Ok that must have been after the day of the old school 9-ball rules.
or I'm guessing that.

Ya musta been droolin' on the boobs dude cause that's a revolver not some bottom feeder semi auto.

jjohnson said:

My original post was intended to show that repeating the same mistakes over a million times won't improve your game. The assumption is that shooting a million balls will insure you will break old habits. Obviously this is not necessarily true. It is all about close observation of what you are actually doing. For each flaw in your game, using your eyes to evaluate what you are seeing and doing will accelerate your learning curve by orders of magnitude. (Keep in mind, we all see the same thing. But we don't all know what we are looking at. To remedy any flaw, you have to understand the nature of the flaw.) Sounds like you moved your eye into the vertical plane of the actual shot line. You eliminated parallax which was the consistent reason for your misalignment. I talked about this in my post about Aiming. Your experience is anecdotal proof of what I am advocating. You call it brain. Once you have determined the nature of your flaw, I call it judgement, intent, control.

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We all see the same thing....we don't, some people can sight down the center of the shaft and the eye tells the brain you cue is straight and it is, some people need to shift their head some for the shaft to be straight, how much? That is what finding your vision center is all about, look at Joshua Filler, his cue is almost outside of his left eye, he doesn't miss often and he plays fantastic position, it's eye, brain, hand coordination, your eye can lie to you.

336Robin said:

When you say, "One Foul" what exactly does that mean?

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One foul ball in hand anywhere on the table

HawaiianEye said:

MOST people play BEST with the cue they have played the MOST with...no matter the brand or type of cue.

When I worked in the pool hall as a kid and throughout my teens, I played best with a house cue I had fixed up.

When I got a cheap two-piece and used that all the time, I played the best with that cue.

When I went to Taiwan and didn't bring a cue, I played best with a house cue again.

When I returned and had Richard Black build me a cue, I played best with that cue.

Etc.

Etc.

Etc.

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True but to a degree.
After a while, you kind of know what you like in a pool cue, like weight and balance and shaft stiffness and tip hardness.
And you will play better with such a cue.

I know what I like to play with, at least I know what I liked 15 years ago before I stopped playing.
Trying to pick it up again in the past 6 months, showed me that what I liked 15 years ago, doesn’t work that great for me today.
I’ve been mixing and matching butts and shafts in my collection to find what works best for me today and honestly, I’m quite surprised with the combination that works best for right now.

middleofnowhere said:

There's various ways of playing. We often played Ring games and we had this real reckless way we played. On a scratch you shot from behind the line, if the next ball and rotation was behind the line you just threw it down and shot the next Ball. A majority of people that played if you scratched and the next ball in rotation was behind the line it spotted up.

That's why years ago the spot shot was such an integral part of the game. It came up all the time. There was always a debate about balls behind the line about whether you look down the line cross table or you use base of the ball to determine if it's behind the line.

He used to even come up on the break. Guy would break and I'll send somebody else hey he wasn't behind the line. Lots of things for people getting arguments about.

I remember the first time I ever played one foul. The guy comes in who I knew and had not seen in a while and we often played I usually beat him. Well wherever he'd been playing one foul was how they played.

So I never used argue about rules I'll play anyway the other player wants to play. Wow he beat me for 200 pretty quick. But the fact is it wasn't long before that was the only way anybody was playing and one foul became the rule of the day from then on.

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336Robin said:

That is how I remember playing and scratches get ball in hand behind the line.
IF you scratch and a ball is made that ball spots up and you get the cue ball in the kitchen
and things keep rolling.

There are things about the old way that would appeal to some viewers but this is what we changed from
so there were obviously more people that wanted it changed.

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There's various ways of playing. We often played Ring games and we had this real reckless way we played. On a scratch you shot from behind the line, if the next ball and rotation was behind the line you just threw it down and shot the next Ball. A majority of people that played if you scratched and the next ball in rotation was behind the line it spotted up.

That's why years ago the spot shot was such an integral part of the game. It came up all the time. There was always a debate about balls behind the line about whether you look down the line cross table or you use base of the ball to determine if it's behind the line.

It used to even come up on the break. Guy would break and somebody else would yell hey he wasn't behind the line. Lots of things for people getting arguments about.

I remember the first time I ever played one foul. The guy comes in who I knew and had not seen in a while and we often played I usually beat him. Well wherever he'd been playing one foul was how they played.

So I never used argue about rules I'll play anyway the other player wants to play. Wow he beat me for 200 pretty quick. I have no idea what I was doing as he's playing me safe and snookering me getting ball in hand. But the fact is it wasn't long before that was the only way anybody was playing and one foul became the rule of the day from then on.